By Henry Makow Ph.D.
July 27, 2003
(Reader's Note: This summer I am
revising important articles that predated my web site.)
"Comrades, you will remember the
ancient tale of the capture of Troy ... The attacking army was
unable to achieve victory until, with the aid of the famous Trojan
Horse, it managed to penetrate to the very heart of the enemy camp."
--George Dimitrov, Comintern General
Secretary, August, 1935.
Betty Friedan, the "founder of
modern feminism" pretended to be a typical 1950's American mother
who had a "revelation" that women like her were exploited and should
seek independence and self-fulfillment in career.
What Friedan (nee: Betty Naomi
Goldstein) didn't say is that she had been a Communist propagandist
since her student days at Smith College (1938-1942) and that the
destruction of the family has always been central to the Communist
plan for world government. See
"The Communist Manifesto" (1848).
Friedan dropped out of grad school
to become a reporter for a Communist news service. From 1946 -1952
she worked for the newspaper of the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers of America, (UE) "the largest Communist-led
institution of any kind in the United States." In 1947, Congress
targeted the UE as a Communist front and its membership began a
steady decline.
Daniel Horowitz, a History Professor
at Smith with impeccable Liberal and Feminist credentials documents
all this in his book, Betty Friedan and the Making of the
Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War and Modern
Feminism (University of Massachusetts Press 1999). Horowitz
cites a union member who described how a Communist minority "seized
control of the UE national office, the executive board, the
paid-staff, the union newspaper and some district councils and
locals."
Betty Frieden doesn't want anyone to
know her radical antecedents. Throughout her career, she said she
had no interest in the condition of women before her "revelation."
She refused to cooperate with Professor Horowitz and accused him of
"Red-baiting."
Why? Because her book "The
Feminist Mystique" (1963) would not have sold over five million
copies if her subversive background were known. Communists operate
by subterfuge -- pretending to be just like us. This is the "Popular
Front" strategy that consisted of starting idealistic movements in
order to ensnare well-meaning people, usually students, workers,
women, artists or intellectuals. The membership was ignorant that
their organization was funded and controlled by people with a
totally different agenda. This is also the principle behind
freemasonry, Zionism and Communism itself. Essentially the adherents
are dupes.
Willi Munzenberg, an early
confidante of Lenin, organized the Popular Fronts in the 1920's and
1930's and referred to them as "my innocents clubs". He pioneered
the protest march, the demonstration, the radical bookstore and
publication, the arts festival, and the recruitment of celebrities
("fellow travellers.")
In the words of historian Stephen
Koch, Munzenberg "was amazingly successful at mobilizing the
intelligentsia of the West on behalf of a moralistic set of
political attitudes responsive to Soviet needs. In the process, he
organized and defined the 'enlightened' moral agenda of his era." (Double
Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas Against
the West, New York, 1994, p.14.)
In a 1989 interview, Babette Gross,
the wife of Willy Munstenberg, described the Popular Front modus
operandi:
"You do not endorse Stalin. You do
not call yourself a Communist. You do not call upon people to
support the Soviets. Never. You claim to be an independent minded
idealist. You don't really understand politics but you claim the
little guy is getting a lousy break." (Koch, p. 220)
Friedan observed this principle when
she helped start second-wave Feminism, which is a classic "Popular
Front." The very name, "the woman's movement" and claim to be for
"equality" are but a smoke screen for a diabolical crusade to
destroy the institution of the family. For example, feminist
professor Alison Jagger calls the nuclear family "a cornerstone of
women's oppression: it enforces women's dependence on men, it
enforces heterosexuality and it imposes the prevailing masculine and
feminine character structures on the next generation." ("Feminist
Politics and Human Nature," 1988)
The "Congress of American Women," a
Popular Front organization founded in 1946 reached a membership of
250,000. It was disbanded in 1950 after being required to register
as a "foreign agent" by the U.S. Government. Feminist historian Ruth
Rosen writes that the "CAW's agenda prefigured much of the modern
women's movement that emerged in the sixties." (Ruth Rosen, The
World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America,
New York, 2000, p.28.)
The FBI kept tabs on the "Women's
movement" but found no direct connection with Soviet subversion.
Ruth Rosen, herself a veteran, finds this ironic.
"Ironically, the FBI searched for
signs of subversion in the Women's movement but couldn't recognize
what was truly dangerous. While they looked for Communists and
bombs, the women's movement was shattering traditional ideas about
work, customs, education, sexuality, and the family. Ultimately the
movement would prove far more revolutionary than the FBI could ever
imagine. Feminism would leave a legacy of disorientation, debate and
disagreement, create cultural chaos and social change for millions
of men and women, and, in the process, help ignite the culture wars
that would polarize American society. But at the time these ideas
were not what the FBI considered subversive." (260)
By attacking the social fabric,
feminists inflicted more damage to Western society than Communists
ever dreamed. Domestic violence hysteria has driven a wedge between
men and women. Women have been psychologically neutered. They are
encouraged to pursue sex and career not family. The US birth rate
has plummeted from 3.9 children per woman in 1960 to 2 today, the
lowest level in history. [Replacement is 2.1] The marriage rate has
declined by 1/3 while the divorce rate has doubled since 1960. More
than half of all first-born US children are conceived or born out of
wedlock. (William Bennett, "The Broken Hearth" p.13)
The feminist Trojan Horse has proven
extremely effective. The question is why? How could a sick
subversive philosophy that openly pits women against men have been
able to succeed?
The disconcerting answer is that
monopoly capitalists are behind both Communism and Feminism and use
them to undermine the political and cultural institutions of Western
Civilization.
Rockefeller-Rothschild cartels own
most of the world and naturally assume they should control it too.
They own most of our politicians, media and educators. Their goal is
a "new world order" (a.k.a. "globalization") in which they remake
mankind to fit their nefarious ends.
Betty Friedan, take a bow.
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